Movin or not ?
-- 04 August 2006
Nothing exciting. It's another day. Still very hot out, although this is suppose to be our last near 100 F day. Went on a short walk to grab a hot dog ($2) at one the many vendors outside my workplace. Actually good hotdogs that have grown on me, but in no way do they compare to the Vienna Beef dogs from Chicago that I am so used to.
We may try to go to Wrightsville Beach tomorrow, weather depending. Don't know what's instore for tonight. Dinner, and then perhaps a walk would be nice.
-- 03 August 2006
Nothing special to report this day. Kids got a bath at night. Keegan and Carson actually wanted a shower so they did that - they like to use the adult shampoo and especially the conditioner since it makes their hair so soft and smooth. Ian had the bathtub to himself for the first time in a looong time I believe and he seemed to enjoy it.
I had to do what they call a migration at work. Moving one of our clients from our old 4.2x software to our latest 4.4x version. It was final run day, got there at 7am left at 5:30pm. At least they buy us breakfast and lunch. We had Thai/sushi. I'm getting to like sushi more and more, but I can't yet make a meal out of it. On the side suits me just fine for now.
Amanda and I have been discussing during the past several days the possibility of moving to a new home in the area. Our delima stems from have the fact that we have a three bedroom house with five people in it. Not that the three boys need their own room, but the way it stands now is that there are only two empty bedrooms for the three of them. They are all in the same room now, and the third bedroom is the 'toy' room, although for reasons unknown many toys find their way downstairs and seem to stay there until the 'cleanup' patrol comes thru and orders a change. :) We thought about a rotation as the kids get older. Each one gets a month or two of their 'own' room, but that's a lot of work for Amanda and I every month or two. Or we could just keep them all together, which will be fine for another for or five years, but at some point we are really running out of closet space for clothes. As they get bigger so do their clothes. I think if we just clean the junk out of the two closets we can manage for at least another four or five years which is what I would prefer. This allows us to bring our mortgage down to about 7 years (!!!) and the kids will be older, making moving easier, both financially and physically. That's the plan I'm leaning towards right now. During that four or five years we could spend money on the house to pretty up the inside for sure and keep up on maintenance. We'll see. Last night we found a house that we liked but it's out of our price range. Amanda called the realtor and it's been on the market for six weeks and I looked online at sales in the area and I think the house is overpriced. Perhaps if it drops $25,000 we would seriously consider it. It's such a hard decision though. We love the area/location we are in and the convience to places we frequent. With this new house Keegans school would remain the same which is a must for any more we contemplate. Time will tell.
Nothing exciting. It's another day. Still very hot out, although this is suppose to be our last near 100 F day. Went on a short walk to grab a hot dog ($2) at one the many vendors outside my workplace. Actually good hotdogs that have grown on me, but in no way do they compare to the Vienna Beef dogs from Chicago that I am so used to.
We may try to go to Wrightsville Beach tomorrow, weather depending. Don't know what's instore for tonight. Dinner, and then perhaps a walk would be nice.
-- 03 August 2006
Nothing special to report this day. Kids got a bath at night. Keegan and Carson actually wanted a shower so they did that - they like to use the adult shampoo and especially the conditioner since it makes their hair so soft and smooth. Ian had the bathtub to himself for the first time in a looong time I believe and he seemed to enjoy it.
I had to do what they call a migration at work. Moving one of our clients from our old 4.2x software to our latest 4.4x version. It was final run day, got there at 7am left at 5:30pm. At least they buy us breakfast and lunch. We had Thai/sushi. I'm getting to like sushi more and more, but I can't yet make a meal out of it. On the side suits me just fine for now.
Amanda and I have been discussing during the past several days the possibility of moving to a new home in the area. Our delima stems from have the fact that we have a three bedroom house with five people in it. Not that the three boys need their own room, but the way it stands now is that there are only two empty bedrooms for the three of them. They are all in the same room now, and the third bedroom is the 'toy' room, although for reasons unknown many toys find their way downstairs and seem to stay there until the 'cleanup' patrol comes thru and orders a change. :) We thought about a rotation as the kids get older. Each one gets a month or two of their 'own' room, but that's a lot of work for Amanda and I every month or two. Or we could just keep them all together, which will be fine for another for or five years, but at some point we are really running out of closet space for clothes. As they get bigger so do their clothes. I think if we just clean the junk out of the two closets we can manage for at least another four or five years which is what I would prefer. This allows us to bring our mortgage down to about 7 years (!!!) and the kids will be older, making moving easier, both financially and physically. That's the plan I'm leaning towards right now. During that four or five years we could spend money on the house to pretty up the inside for sure and keep up on maintenance. We'll see. Last night we found a house that we liked but it's out of our price range. Amanda called the realtor and it's been on the market for six weeks and I looked online at sales in the area and I think the house is overpriced. Perhaps if it drops $25,000 we would seriously consider it. It's such a hard decision though. We love the area/location we are in and the convience to places we frequent. With this new house Keegans school would remain the same which is a must for any more we contemplate. Time will tell.
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